Training Day #49
What a Swim Day!
What can I say about today that I can’t say of an unplanned day? So today was an interesting day! It started off to a slow start. I got up 30 minutes later and only left 5 minutes after I usually do. Due to the weather, I hit some unexpected traffic and didn’t get to the gym till 8:30. This is where my previous comments about preparing the night before hit me. I did not realize that I had taken my towel to swap out during my Monday swim session. (My wife even asked me last night if I packed a towel! SMH…) All I had were the clothes I had on, the ones for school, and a small sweat towel. I knew a target was nearby and a school clothing shop, but I only had time to stop at one. You guess it I chose wrong and the school store didn’t have a towel. So I ended up just using the small towel I had. It all worked out ok!
So for the swim workout, today was a leisurely swim. It started with 200 yards of warmup of mixed swimming followed by the main exercise of 4x 200-yard freestyle swim. Then concluded the workout with 200 yards of cool down. All in all, about 1200 yards of total swimming: I began the warmup with a mix of freestyle for 100 yards and backstroke for 100 yards. This was overall a good start. The 200-yard repeats went well, averaging about 2:09 minutes per yard. I felt like I was getting a good breathing rhythm and could go forever. The cooldown was uneventful just repeated the warmup with 100 yards of freestyle and 100 yards of backstroke. I rotated the exercise every 50 yards.
Key Takeaways:
- Always listen to your spouse when packing the night prior! It will save you some time.
- Even when things don’t go to plan, make the best of it and get your workout in!
